The gnoll is vaguely similar to John Candy‘s character Barf in Spaceballs. Barf called himself a MOG, or as John Candy puts it – “I’m a mog: half man, half dog. I’m my own best friend!” And, as a dog owner since getting married, I have to say that dogs can definitely be a serious . . . → Read More: The Gassy Gnoll: Man’s Best Friends

This month’s RPG Blog Carnival topic is “Animals in RPGs” (hosted by Tower of the Archmage). And at first I was stumped. But as I started doing a bit of brainstorming, I came up with a few different topics to talk about this month: Familiars, Omens, The Hunt, and Heroes & Monsters.

After my interview of Jason Banditt Adams, the Rogue Artist, I was contacted by a friend of Jason’s – Tony Steele – who was also interested in sharing a bit of his wisdom earned as an artist for comics and roleplaying games. What was I going to say? No? [smirk]